2023-24 Rockefeller College Awards Ceremony and Reception
Join us as we honor this year’s Rockefeller College alumni and student award recipients on Friday, May 3rd. This annual celebratory event will include a presentation of the awards as well as a reception at the UAlbany ETEC Building.
Student Research, Scholarship and Creativity Shine at 2nd Annual Showcase
UAlbany held its second annual Showcase Day, which celebrates academic excellence, on Tuesday, April 30, 2024. The day-long event featured poster fairs, performances, discussions, demonstrations and exhibitions that reflected new and original exploration of topics in STEM, arts and humanities, social sciences and the professions.
FBI Collegiate Academy Preps UAlbany Students for Careers in Law Enforcement
Students in the academy attend a series of four two-hour programming sessions that center around human trafficking, gang violence, domestic and international terrorism, and cybercrime.
Hindelang Center to Host 22nd Annual Lecture
The University at Albany’s Michael J. Hindelang Criminal Justice Research Center will host its 22nd Annual Lecture on Monday, May 6th, 2024, at 1pm in the Standish Room, located on the third floor of the Science Library. The lecture will feature Dr. Vesla Mae Weaver, speaking on the topic of, “When Black Police Almost Changed the World: Black Police Political Organizations and Resistance to Racial Authoritarianism.”
Eight UAlbany Students Win 2024 Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence
Eight UAlbany students will be recognized Thursday with the Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence, the highest award the State University of New York bestows upon a student.
Rockefeller Rises to 26th in US News National Rankings
The University at Albany’s Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy has once again been recognized as a national leader among public affairs colleges by U.S. News & World Report. In the latest U.S. News & World Report Best Public Affairs Schools rankings, Rockefeller College ranks 26th in the nation overall, as well in the top-25 nationally for five public affairs specialties
2024 President’s Excellence Awards Conferred
At his annual Spring University Address, President Havidán Rodríguez announced the winners of the 2024 President’s Excellence Awards.
The Policing Machine: Enforcement, Endorsements, and the Illusion of Public Input
The past few years have seen Americans express passionate demands for police transformation. But even as discussion of no-knock warrants, chokeholds, and body cameras has exploded, police departments have successfully stonewalled change. Drawing on his recent book, The Policing Machine (University of Chicago Press, 2023), Tony Cheng will discuss the stages of police departments’ resistance, offering a close look at the deep engagement strategies that NYPD precincts have developed with only subsets of the community in order to counter any truly meaningful, democratic oversight.